Aesop is a TCP-proxy that supports many advanced and powerful features. It's designed to be secure, fast and reliable. Aesop makes use of strong cryptography for all its data-transmission up to the end-link. Another powerful feature of Aesop is that Aesop proxies can be transparently stacked into a secure chain. Aesop supports IPv6 and can be used as secure IPv4-to-IPv6 tunnel for TCP connections. Aesop is implemented using multiplexing and is therefore fast and lightweight.
Key features:
- Fast and reliable TCP-proxy.
- Strong cryptography: Arcfour (RC4) with a 512bit key exchanged by the Signed Diffie Hellman protocol (With RSA/MD5 for the signature).
- Encryption and key exchange is all transparent to the user.
- Multiple proxies can be stacked in a chain to create a secure anonymous route, there is no limit on how many proxies can be stacked. Stacking is done all transparent to the user.
- Full IPv6 support.
- Proper forwarding and handling of Out-of-Band (OOB) data.
- Optimal performance by a single-thread design. Aesop is fully multiplexed.
- Lightweight.
